Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

What, with my tongue in your tail? nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman.

William Shakespeare

A whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure. When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha?

William Shakespeare

Of all the fair resort of gentlemen That every day with parle encounter me, In thy opinion which is worthiest love?

Joan Miro

What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.

Joseph Addison

I am very much concerned when I see young gentlemen of fortune and quality so wholly set upon pleasures and diversions, that they neglect all those improvements in wisdom and knowledge which may make them easy to themselves and useful to the world.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.

Livy

A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.

Oliver Cromwell

I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity.

Henry L. Stimson

Gentlemen don't read each other's mail.

Benjamin Disraeli

I am myself a gentleman of the press, and have no other escutcheon.

Edgar Allan Poe

A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.

Benjamin Disraeli

Propriety of manners and consideration for others are the two main characteristics of a gentleman

Fred Turner

This gentleman is spooked by all the attention.

This guy is not a gentleman robber. He's putting guns in people's faces, he's putting them on the ground, and he's threatening them. We want to end this violence before someone gets seriously injured or killed.

You should get that. It might be the gentleman from FEMA.

Barry Alvarez

You talk about low-key and unassuming and just a very talented young man who's a gentleman at all times. He's just been a joy.

Herb Brooks

The legs feed the wolf, gentlemen,

Henry David Thoreau

I look upon England today as an old gentleman who is travelling with a great deal of baggage, trumpery which has accumulated fromlong housekeeping, which he has not the courage to burn.

Jessica Hahn

Church is great, but I found my church here. Hugh Hefner has been nothing but a gentleman.

James Branch Cabell

No lady is ever a gentleman.

James Buchanan

I have gone wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any of them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A gentleman may love like a lunatic, but not like a beast.

George Sanders

This is no time to act like a gentleman. I am a cad and shall react like one.

Jennifer O'Neill

John Wayne was a consummate gentleman. Bigger than life.

Jack Ruby

I am as innocent regarding any conspiracy as any of you gentlemen in the room.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Gentlemen, I am tormented by questions; answer them for me.

Fanny Burney

to be sure, marriage is all in all with the ladies; but with us gentlemen it's quite another thing!

Hannah Arendt

A functionary, when he really is nothing more than a functionary, is really a very dangerous gentleman.

Lance Armstrong

George is a nice guy, no doubt. He's learned that he can be a gentleman and still have a killer instinct. Me, I'm the opposite. I'm a jerk who has to work at being a gentleman. I've always loved to put the hurt on people.

Bobby Jones

Gentleman Jim, It might have turned out differently, I don't know.

George Bernard Shaw

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.

George Bernard Shaw

I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

George Bernard Shaw

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.